Basically no. They also have like no drm shit on the PC ports of their games so every single one is cracked within a day or two. Sony actually just makes f2p pc games
Anyone who is drinking/drugging every day or at the very least consistently enough that it can be brought up repeatedly to others is the opposite of happy. There isn't a single person that is religiously avoiding sobriety because they're perfectly content with themselves and their situation.
I love stuff with very dense and complex mechanics. The lack of mechanical dexterity and it's consequences have fried the gamer race. I've talked about it before but for me the most fun I have had in games is MMO style raids/dungeons. Stuff that needs multiple people doing very specific things while under time and enemy pressure, even better if movement can play a role along with it all. The brainrot "puzzles" this guy is talking about are because the average gamer is a down syndrome toddler. The amount of times in games where the most simple things are either ignored completely or impossible to complete by some random retard is ridiculously high. Dipshit phone gamers, boomers tickled by "beating a heckin level!11!1!1!!1!1" in babies first whatever, rightoids circle jerking some 20 year old shit that is basically a walking simulator (game won't even boot). If any off these people encounter a mechanic that requires more than whatever nigger tier gameplay they are used to wading around in, they can't do it. Good luck even getting a rightoid to try and play a game, let alone not suck ass at it. They all seem to like complaining about them more than anything. Never played Stellar Blade but I'm not surprised that its cooked. I'm assuming it's a gook game which means less quality of life than a bathtub toaster moment. There is also the demographic that has no time for games and I always wonder why they stick around. If I'm ever at a point where I am only scraping up a couple hours a week to play some vidya I'm just gonna find something else to do. I'm sure some of that group does have a full schedule if they're working a ton, have kids, etc. but it's not all of them. Some of them are this thing I still haven't come up with a good term for. Me and tactical call them fake gamers but it's not particularly accurate. The type that plays them minimally, does nothing when they do actually play, and loves to talk about the le epic times from years ago when they played halo 2 once. To me it's all just different levels of tourist. Also, people apparently can't remember anything ever, even after seeing it repeatedly. I have known people who have games they played for hundreds or thousands of hours and if it isn't something they played recently, it's as if they never played it at all. Hell this would happen sometimes while we were actively playing something. We would rerun through something my group had done to an obnoxious degree and you couldn't even tell we had done it before. As soon as it's not in front of them the whole thing is memory-holed.
I wrote that not too long after I woke up and rereading through it I could have explained some stuff a lot better. Your assumptions are more or less correct. The rightoid gamer ticks a lot of those boxes we both mentioned. It is a somewhat varied type of "gamer". Again I don't have a great word for it, it is a taste (if you can even call it that) in games I haven't seen anywhere else where the person isn't playing anything nearly as good as they seem to think they are, or isn't playing anything at all. Walking simulator wasn't a good choice for the descriptor. What I was poorly intending to convey is that they like games that are the pinnacle of uninteresting. What I should have said was working simulator. I know a lot of people here like turn based and top down clicker games, rts, tower defense etc. That stuff is exceptionally boring for me and is basically clicking a spreadsheet with a game skin on it, and then watching a cutscene you can move around a bit. CoD is quite fitting yes. I haven't bought or played one in a long time because it is quite literally the exact same thing every time. There is a free to play fps game called Delta Force that is a mix of battlefield and cod and its good enough for me to scratch that itch when I do get it here and there.
The reactionary gamer is also accurate. The "never playing anything" is another meme I have seen manifest on fedi specifically where some of the most outspoken people about the gaming as a whole has quite literally played nothing made after a certain point. Which sure, there is a lot of complete garbage, but there has also been some really good games. This is also part of the group that either doesn't have time to play anything or isn't compelled to spend much time playing anything anymore.
Also halo 2 was just me being a bit cheeky because it is pointed to as being the holy grail game by people on here, even though it is a fairly standard fps game with a pvp component. I've played all of the halo games a lot, despite what some people on here would assume, and they are just too simple for me. I played almost nothing but pvp games for years. I have virtually no interest in anything pvp at this point and on the pve side of things I need more than just basic shooting at ads. On top of the other stuff mentioned regarding mechanics, I also really want build depth. Ideally both. MMOs are really the main thing that satisfies what I want out of games for my main stuff. Gameplay can carry my interest much more than building can however. If a game has a good enough gameplay loop but a simple sandbox I can still play it. On the flip side if a game has extremely complex systems but the gameplay itself is lame, then I'm not going to bother.